Vote No. 98 (H.R. 1540)

Motion by Ms. Slaughter to amend the rule to make in order and provide the appropriate waivers for the following amendments to be separately considered: Amendment #13, offered by Rep. Garamendi (CA), Rep. Rangel (NY), Rep. Clarke (NY), and Rep. Welch (VT), which would limit funds made available for military operations in Afghanistan for the purposes of counter-terrorism operations, and require the Secretary of Defense to enforce a significant and swift drawdown of Unites States Armed Forces from Afghanistan; Amendment #168, offered by Rep. Lee (CA), which would restrict spending to withdrawing Armed Forces from Afghanistan in a safe and orderly fashion; Amendment #170, offered by Rep. Lee (CA), which would call on President Obama to commit to a significant and sizeable reduction of troop levels in Afghanistan no later than July 31, 2011; Amendment #161, offered by Rep. Tierney (MA), which would require the Department of Defense to submit to Congress a report on the effects of carrying out a United States strategy to provide counterterrorism assistance to Afghanistan and to rely on the international donor community to provide development assistance and other related assistance to Afghanistan; and Amendment #172, offered by Rep. Tierney (MA), which would extend to the end of FY 2012 the requirement that the Secretary of Defense annually submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on a long-term detailed plan for sustaining the Afghanistan National Army (ANA) and the Afghanistan National Police (ANP) of the Afghanistan National Security Forces (ANSF) and would also add a requirement that the report include metrics that evaluate the value and utility of ANSF development activities at the program level and that ties such activities to long-term strategic objectives. Defeated 4-8.